CONFESSION: A businessman who claimed he paid smugglers to transport him from China’s Fujian Province to Penghu turned himself in to police yesterday
Taipei Times
Date: Jan 21, 2019
By: Lin Chia-nan / Staff reporter
A Coast Guard Administration task force has been set up after a Taiwanese man said
A man turns himself in to police in New Taipei City’s Sansia District yesterday after claiming to have entered Taiwan illegally. Photo: CNA
that he paid smugglers to transport him back to Taiwan from China late last year and that others on the boat were carrying pork and other meat products.
A businessman, surnamed Lee (李), on Saturday posted on Baoliao Gongshe (爆料公社), a Facebook page for sharing revelations, that he had smuggled himself out of China after running afoul of Chinese authorities, but had decided to turn himself in to police because he realized that illegal immigration and smuggling are the biggest loopholes in the government’s efforts to prevent the spread of African swine fever to Taiwan.
He had a business in China, but was jailed in Guangdong Province for 67 days before being released pending trial and had paid smugglers NT$1.5 million (US$48,635) to transport him to Penghu County, he wrote.
He traveled by boat from Quanzhou in China’s Fujian Province to Penghu, and then flew from Penghu Airport in Makong to Taipei International Airport (Songshan airport), which meant he did not have to go through immigration, Lee wrote. [FULL STORY]
